flour

mommyjenn · 10-24-2004, 02:32 PM

What kind of flour is the least offensive?

Meaning...which is closest to regular, white flour?
I want to be able to fool my family.

Jennifer

Shannon816 · 11-02-2004, 03:08 AM

I don't think I can adequately answer your question, because to my knowledge there isn't another kind of flour that will taste like regular white flour. A lot of whole wheat recipes have a small amount of white flour added to them, so you could try doing part whole wheat and part white flour to get your family used to something else. Depending on what I'm making, I sometimes add oat flour too. My personal opinion is if you are trying to trick your family, don't try soy flour because it tastes bad.

snowbunny · 11-05-2004, 08:20 PM

Take it from a celiac (someone who MUST avoid all gluten, wheat, rye, spelt, oat, barley etc. foods and flours and ingredients) THERE IS NO SUBTITUTE FOR WHITE FLOUR.

White flour contains gluten and that's what makes it so special and so perfect for baking.

When I bake (rather when DBF bakes for me

) I use gluten-free all purpose flour, rice flour, almond meal, garfava flour (garbanzo bean and fava beans).

Gluten-free all purpose flour is generally lower in carbs than regular all-purpose flour, but you must add xanthan gum otherwise your cake/cookie/pie crust will not hold together. This is because most gluten-free flour mixes (I LOVE THE ONE BY BOB'S RED MILL) contain a mixture of flours including high-protein flours like garbanzo flour.

There's a difference in texture. But, here's the only cake that I was able to pass off without people realizing they weren't eating white flour: Bob's Red Mill Chocolate Cake Recipe

Don't use soy flour: soy is bad for the thyroid.

There's a difference though. And baking, even with eliminating white flour, is probably not going to be too healthy.

VivC · 11-18-2004, 01:27 AM

I use this instead of white flour for everything. It's whole wheat flour, but ground more finely, so it has more the consistency of white flour.

DH, who hates anything healthy, swears that biscuits/breads/ muffins actually taste better with this.

Cookies are a little tougher to decide on, since he hates Splenda and that's all I use. So, the fact that he doesn't like cookies made with this pastry flour may or may not mean anything. But I can't tell a difference.

glowingpurpleaura · 11-18-2004, 01:30 AM

Im going with the whole wheat flower

lemondog · 11-23-2004, 07:33 PM

Ditto to the Whole Wheat Pastry Flour. It has all the health benefits of WW flour, but is finer and cooks more like white flour, although it is still not an exact replica.